Favorite foraging and "busy" toys... for cockatiels?

[Muffin]

Since moving my cockatiel Miss Penny into the flight cage with the other cockatiel and parakeets she has shredded all the shreddables and chewed all the chewables and has requested more entertainment be provided her when I am not there to shred and chew as well.

So I went on a mission today to find some good foraging toys to keep Penny and everybody busy during the day, but it seems that most of the really fun-looking foraging toys were designed with larger birds in mind.

I did buy them a Holee Roller, but when I got it home the holes were little bigger than I had thought. The large one measure 1 inch across. Do you think that is unsafe for the parakeets? I don't want them to get their little heads stuck in there...

So what foraging or busy toys do your cockatiels/parakeets like, and where did you find them? Thanks!

[KDK241]

My parakeets like toys that make as much noise as possible so they aren't too big on foraging toys. I wouldn't use the toy with a hole that big, the tiels could get their heads stuck too and to me it's not worth the risk. I make all my toys now, they like them better and I can make sure I get a little bit of something that everyone likes. Not only that but there's nothing worse than spending an outrageous amount of money on a toy just to have them ignore it, lol.
My tiels love some seeds mixed in with shredded newspaper or a sheet of paper they can chew through. Sometimes I put a paper plate or ice cube tray filled with different goodies on the bottom of the cage and tape paper on top so they have to chew through to find the food, beads, treats or whatever else is in there. I leave some empty though so they don't always find something. If you do that it's a good idea to make some small holes in the paper first so they can see that there is food in there. I also use unbleached coffee filters that I fold up so they look a bit like a flower and they love to chew them to pieces. The cheap straw hats you buy for dolls at the craft store are really great and they are about 99 cents each, just be sure to check every day for loose strings. You can tuck seeds and small pieces of paper in them to make it more fun. Empty egg cartons torn into small pieces and put on a string are great. I always take a couple of the cup parts and place them right side up and put a treat or two in there. I microwave them for about 30 seconds first to kill any icky things. One other thing my tiels go nuts for and my keets even like are pieces of drinking straws cut up and strung on cotton rope. They will chew and preen them for hours and they last quite awhile and are easily replaced.
Pretty much anything you can think of works. I used to sit and think for hours about a toy and then I realized that they don't care what it looks like, lol.

[Duky]

It's hard to find foraging toys for small birds. Ducky (GCC) can manage this little barrel that you put food in as a foraging toy. She can get at it pretty quick. There's also a treasure chest but if I set it easy she gets through it fast and if I set it harder she can't manage it and loses interest. So as for foraging toys I haven't found any that can keep her busy all day. But there are other toys that are great adn if you get lots of them it occupies all day. The best are the cheapest too, there are these new toys that look like a bunch of little candies wrapped in coloured paper (it's really just little pieces of wood inside) but Ducky loves shredding that paper. She likes those more than toys with a big roll of paper. She also really loves the little acrylic toys with bells on them, she makes all kinds of noises fighting with them.

[hsmoscout]

Sometimes my tiel actually loves the big toys where he shreds it up and finds a suprise inside...especially if they go through tiel sized toys extremely quickly.